In perhaps the biggest indication so far as to how the Fair Work review will be served up, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said any changes would lock in fairness and emphatically ruled out calls to scrap penalty rates.

If you’ve experienced a bit of a slump in the salary stakes, you’re not alone. This year salaries in HR, marketing, customer service, admin and sales have all fallen on the wrong side of the two-speed economy.

In response to a radical submission put forward by Unions NSW to the federal workplace bullying inquiry , a leading employer advocacy body has claimed that while bullying remains a significant issue, it is being inflated by the unions.

It’s an issue which comes up in every HR professional’s career and there’s inevitably an awkward meeting involving a disgraced employee, their manager, the IT administrator, and HR – but do you give them the boot?